Byron Mann News and site updates

2007-01-09:

From The Globe and Mail , January 6th, 2007:
"The executives at CBC Television are so pleased with the miniseries they have already told the producers at Omni Film to go ahead with Dragon Boys II, a movie, and are now touting it as a "prime example" of their network's new programming strategy to reach untapped audiences and rake in higher ratings."
Part two would revisit the characters after 3 years have passed.

Added a link to Dragon Boys on Wikipedia on the links page

Read a short interview with Byron Man on Dragon Boys - the unofficial fansite

2006-12-27:

Dragon Boys Gallery: Added 5 set stills.
Links: Added a link to Tzi Ma's website - there's a Dragon Boys clip in his demo reel with Byron Mann included.

Blink Magazine presents Toronto Premier Screening of Dragon Boys

Toronto-based Asian Canadian lifestyle magazine will be presenting the Toronto premiere of Dragon Boys.

DRAGON BOYS PREMIER
TUESDAY - January 2, 2007
The Fairview Library Theatre - 35 Fairview Mall Drive
6:00 PM - 9:00 PM (2 parts, 90 min. each)
Q&A (9:30 PM) with Simon Wong and others to follow.

Presented by Blink Magazine in association with CBC Television, NAAAP, Toronto and the Toronto Public Libraries. For more information, contact Lisa, or call or call 416-804-5870

2006-12-20:

Home page: Gave it a Dragon Boys make-over
Gallery: Gave it a make-over, added two new publicity photos, a public picture gallery and a Dragon Boys page.

2006-12-13:

Rice Paper Magazine Online: The current issue shows the cover of the winter issue paper version, featuring Byron Mann and Eric Tsang. The magazine contains Dragon Boys The story behind the Scenes by Nancy Han

Rice Paper Magazine cover with Eric Tsang and Byron Mann, 27 kb

Royal Destiny removed from the filmography.

2006-12-04:

Links added: Dragon Boys Ultimate Fan Site and Unofficial Fan Site.
Filmography: Added Nobody and Blonde and Blonder.
If you're in Vancouver, you might be able to attend a private screening of Dragon Boys:
Sunday December 17th
At the Rio Theatre on Broadway,
1660 E. Broadway,
Doors 11:15 AM | 12:00 PM - 4:00 PM (2 parts, 90 min. each)
with a Q&A with Byron Mann, Simon Wong and Tzi Ma (TBC) to follow.

Presented by the CAC, in association with CBC Television and NAAAP Vancouver.
For more information, contact Annie Li,

2006-10-12:

Links added: Dragon Boys official site, plus Konwiser Bros, director and producers of Shanghai Kiss.
Filmography: Added Fallen, a TV movie.

2006-04-27:

The Guestbook is back - finally.
Nasty spammers exploded it.
That is the reason it has become more fiddly to enter a message and why an email address is now needed for confirmation - sorry.
Removed the link to Natashja's Byron Mann fansite - there's noting there any more. And even though there's a link on her new site to a Byron Mann fanpage, there's nothing there either.

2005-12-12:

News: Added 2 links to Dragon Boys information.

2005-12-11:

News-item about Dragon Boys.
With comments from both Byron Mann and writer and executive producer Ian Weir.
"The two-part four-hour drama, which will air on CBC next September ......" - seems it's already been rescheduled.

2005-09-29:

News: Added more details about upcoming project Dragon Boys and DVD info about Les Mythes Urbain.
Added Dragon Boys to the Filmography

4 November 2005:

CBC News Release about Dragon Boys
It reveals the story-line and lists many of the actors:
Steph Song, Tzi Ma, Lawrence Chou, Eric Tsang, Christina Ma, Simon Wong, Darryl Quon, Derek Tsang and Gord S. Kwan.
"The two-part, four-hour mini-series will be broadcast on the CBC on March 12 and 13, 2006."

2005-09-29:

Byron Mann just finished THE SHANGHAI KID, with Kelly Hu in Shanghai, China - it's a romantic comedy.

The fall major miniseries is called DRAGON BOYS. It is a multi-faceted drama about the triads in Vancouver, Canada.
2 x 120 Dramatic Mini Series (In Production) CBC
Dragon Boys is on one level a high-octane thriller, and on another a rich tapestry of contemporary Canadian life. Four stories weave together over this four hour mini series. Based on meticulous research, it follows a Chinese-Canadian police detective and an immigrant family as they confront a deadly threat from Asian organized crime.
Source: Omnifilm

Byron Mann's episode of Les Mythes Urbains is now available on DVD from Amazon.fr - the episode is on vol II. The episodes are like vignettes, 15 minutes long. It stars Omar Sharif as the narrator of all these Urban Myths.

2005-07-19:

This is hot off the press: Byron Mann is now in final negotiations to topline a major four-hour miniseries for CBC/Telefilm. It will be their largest production for 2006. Filming will begin this fall. This production will be like TRAFFIC, gritty, dark, and thrilling.
Byron Mann is no longer attached to The Red Album.

2005-07-19:

> Gallery: Added a gallery page for The Counting House.
News: Added information about an upcoming project.
Biography: Added tennis snippet.
Verified mention of "Too Late for Tears" listed at Byron Mann at Filmbug - Byron Mann is NOT involved in that project.

2005-07-01:

Links: Added a link to The Counting House, currently in post-production.
Filmography: Added The Counting House movie and Smallville episode.
Sadly, it looks like The Red Album has been abandoned - at least the website is gone.
It was to have been directed by Allan Tong and Byron Mann's role would have been "Micahel Lau".

2004-10-05:

Gallery: Added picture from Sniper 3.

2004-09-22:

Link page: Added a link to John Fox, armorer who worked on Sniper 3. His site has some nice behind-the-scenes photos of Byron Mann.

2003-12-31:

Belly of the Beast is out now on DVD and I've added a few pictures from it in the gallery section.
And I finally made the guestbook work again!

2003-12-13:

Finally made the guestbook work again. It went bonky after I moved to a windows server, and it took a while to fix it.

2003-08-09:

Gallery: Three wallpapers from Crying Freeman.

2003-07-22:

Unfortunately the Chang Family pilot wasn't picked up, but that doesn't mean Byron Mann isn't busy. He recently completed Belly of the Beast, and this fall, he'll start filming Red Album in Toronto.

2003-07-22:

Filmography: Red Album and Belly of the Beast added.
Gallery: A b&w promotional photograph.
Links: A link to the Official Red Album website.

Sorry - I still have trouble making the guestbook work since I moved to a new webhotel and thus from a unix to an NT server.

2003-01-31:

Links: A link to the Official Byron Mann website.
Gallery: A sub-gallery with 20 pictures from Deadly Target.
Filmography: Two recent guest starrings on Smallville and Robbery Homicide Division.

2002-10-31:

Links: Links to the Yahoo group and current US tv schedule.
Filmography: Added 'Chang Family Saves the World' to tv series.

2002-10-26:

New design uploaded and guestbook added.
Filmography: Updated with Les Mythes Urbains.

2002-08-15:

New main page and news, filmography, links and update pages uploaded.

2002-08-01:

Single page site uploaded.

2002-04-02:

The Fall 2002 tv schedule at Pazsaz has Mann starring in a new tv-series pilot.

ABC: Untitled John Ridley Drama Project - The Chang Family saves the world ?
Centers on a family in which the parents are Wutan Temple Warriors but keep that a secret from their kids, with Lauren Tom, Byron Mann, Dante Basco, and Rona Figueroa.
Status: Pilot order.
Studio: Touchstone production team.

Time will tell if the pilot is made - and made into a series.